ClassicFur- I'll try that tonight when I get home. I think part of my problem is that I've a new camera, and I'm taking pics w/ a huge amount of megapixels. so that a linear reduction [Large to medium to small] still results in a jpeg too large for this forum. I will attempt using the program you've recommended.
Latt- I took two bare-earth seeds apart to see what they looked like inside. It didn't look happy in there... still had meat in it, however it was not pretty like we like to see.
I'll be going up in two weeks, maybe I can do something about it then.